Farmers at the main observation point said the whole thing was like a scale, and another group of peasants in the same area mentioned dumbbells. Michel indicates that the next day's newspapers scoffed at this by headlining "New Saucer Look: Dumbbells Take Off" or "The Scales Fly Off."

After this quarter of an hour, the whole object had spun at full speed and disappeared behind the horizon.

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Two luminous balls

CLERMONT-FERRAND. -- Two inhabitants of Saint-Cirgues (the Haute-Loire) saw in the sky, at very high altitude, two luminous balls which seemed linked together by a stem. The craft remained motionless during a quarter of an hour then disappeared at a very sharp pace.

The French ufologist indicates in his book that according to the newspapers of October 20, and the details which he received later on, on October 18, 1954, in the end of the afternoon, in Saint-Cirgues in Haute-Loire, the peasants had observed a flying object at high altitude in the sky, composed of two luminous balls connected by an also luminous "stem," which had remained in the sky during a quarter of an hour during which the center of the stem seemed to remain in fixed position whereas the two balls and the stem oscillated as the plates of a balance.

After a quarter of an hour of this sort of maneuver, the entire object flew away fast and disappeared at the horizon.

While the peasants on the main location of observation had said that the object reminded of a balance, the object was seen by another group of peasants in the same area who evoked heavyweights. Michel indicates that the newspapers of the following day made fun of the case with headlines such as "New Look for the saucers: heavyweights take the air" or "balances fly away." He also said that the case was reported in the newspapers of October 20.

The authors indicate that on October 18, 1954, farmers in the vicinity of St. Cirgues in the Haute-Loire, France, saw two luminous balls connected by a luminous rod. The middle of the "rod" seemed to be fixed, whereas the "balls" swayed like the pans on a balance, and the whole resembled a set of flying scales. After an estimated 15 minutes, the whole shot off at high speed and disappeared over the horizon.

Charles Garreau recalls that the "balance" observed by Mr. and Mrs. LabussiÃ¨re had been seen a few hours earlier this same day, at Saint-Cirgues, in Haute-Loire. Farmers had noticed, at high altitude, the presence of a "luminous balance in all points identical." At the end of a quarter of hour, the "scale" had moved away at very high speed towards the west.

It is to our knowledge, the only observation of an exchange of saucer pilots. Note that after this exchange, the luminous bar connecting the two balls did reappear. It should also be noted that a few hours earlier, at Saint-Cirgues, in the Haute-Loire, farmers had noticed, at high altitude, the presence of a "luminous scale" in all respects identical. At the end of a quarter of an hour, the "scale" had moved away at very high speed. Is this the same machine that was seen by these two different groups of witnesses?

Luc Chastan indicates that in the Haute Loire in St Cirgues on October 18, 1954 at an unknown hour, "In the end of the after moon, peasants observed a flying object at high altitude in the sky, composed of two luminous balls connected by an also luminous "stem", which had remained in the sky during a quarter of an hour during which the center of the stem seemed to remain in a fixed point while the two balls and the stem oscillated like the plates of a balance. After a quarter of an hour of this maneuver, the whole object fled at high speed and disappeared at the horizon. While the peasants on the principal place of observation had said that the whole evoked a balance, the object was seen by another group of peasants in the same area, who evoked sport weights."

Even without date error, the possibility of balloons remains; I think of a device such as tandem balloons, connected by a cable carrying the radiosonde, or connected by some other device, as visible below. I specify that these are not tandem balloons of 1954; but I cannot exclude such an explanation for this observation, not least because the duration of the "disappearance" behind the horizon has not been given.

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